cont'd ...

BTW Shadow Minister, you really should re-read
your posts on this thread as your posts contradict
what you only claim to be doing.

Lexi, thou protest too much;
The Australian correction was because they referred to the setting up
of a "slush fund", not a "trust fund".

As it turned out they were the same.

Lexi,

The Australian apologized and retracted one line of one of one article, ie when the author of the article used the term trust fund instead of slush fund. This was more of a typo and the Australian stands by the rest of the content.

What is not in dispute is that Juliar knowingly set up a legal entity for purposes very different from its stated purpose, and by not opening a file in her company, violated company procedures and prevented oversight of this from the other partners in the firm. Without any further proof Juliar acted unethically.

There is no proof that Juliar knew of what was going on, neither is there any proof that she didn't, and in the absence of evidence either way she is given the benefit of the doubt. She has not been proven innocent. That she was living with Wilson while this fraud was taking place and claims to be completely oblivious both of his actions and sudden increase in wealth means that there are certainly questions, which given Juliar's penchant for addressing only the blindingly obvious, are likely never to be answered.

Gillard has not come out of this smelling of roses.

SM wants a guilty until proven innocent, just like Thompson. There was no company file, for unpaid work, only Julia's personal one, which has long been lost.
Newman is making great inroads into QLD, people are disillusioned at what they have done. It's not what they voted for.
There will be rumblings in the noalition camp.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Freedom of the press is great.

One can publish a false claim and then
just retract it and apologise. And then
you can do it again and again as long as
one keeps apologising. Of course by that
time the false claim is out there -
and who reads retractions anyway?

Clever journalism? You betcha. At least
that seems to be what "The Australian"
newspaper and its faithful followers believe.

See you on another thread.

Cheers.

lexi,

What false claim? I bet you don't even know what the retraction was about.

Do some real research before spouting the labor party line and looking like an idiot.